This is the thirteenth episode in Eric Ludy’s winter Daily Thunder series that dives into the unstable season of American history known as the Antebellum period (1815-1861). This particular message unpacks the unique challenge a leader faces in having personal convictions, but leading people with opposing viewpoints. The great showman of the late 1850s, Charles Blondin, walked a tightrope across Niagara Falls. And in a sense, every great leader must learn to stay balanced and in the center in order to pull off a similar feat over their own waterfall challenges.